tribal chief

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Abdelatif Baira, another Sahrawi tribal chief, said the autonomy plan would allow the return of "our brothers and sisters" from the camps near Tindouf, home to roughly 175,000 Sahrawi refugees.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

“A lot of that stuff was ‘hurry up and bulldoze the area before anybody knows,’ ” Juaneño tribal chief David Belardes told Dufresne.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

He said to navigate Hyrule "you're encouraged to use your imagination to solve puzzles, craft weapons and battle to defend the land from Ganondorf - tribal chief and villain".

From BBC • May 12, 2023

In the meantime, Mr. Kosemu, the tribal chief, said frustration with China and its proxies keeps intensifying.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2023

Of course he had confederates; one in particular, a tribal chief whose friendship he had secured in the Afghan campaigns of 1878-79.

From Memoir of William Watts McNair by Howard, J. E.